Bartleby the Scrivener - Herman Melville

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Resolving all these things, and coupling then with the recently discovered fact that he made my office his constant abiding place and home, and not forgetful of his morbid moodiness; revolving all these things, a prudential feeling began to steal over me. My first emotions had been those of pure melancholy and sincerest pity; but just in proportion as the forlornness of Bartleby grew and grew in my imagination, did that same melancholy merge into fear, that pity into repulsion.

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frisbeedog 12 years, 2 months ago
Mis-spelling. Bartleby grew in my inagination.

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